It’s the end of Day Two at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles. I’m sitting here in my hotel room eating some dinner and catching up for the first time in a few days on some work and e-mails that I haven’t had the time to do since arriving at TechEd. So far, it’s been a good two days. I’ve already taped two TechEd Online sessions (a panel, and a tech… Read More

Below is my complete schedule for TechEd. I hope to see you at the panel and my session. Feel free to come by also when I’m working the DAT booth. Monday, May 1112 – 1PM     Speaker Idol Judge1 – 2 PM      Panel Discussion – Planning a Windows Deployment for SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering (with Max Verun from the SQL Server Develeopment Team and Steven Ekren from the Windows Development Clustering Team)… Read More

I’m doing a webcast with Unisys for SQL Server Magazine on April 14th entitled “SQL Server Consolidation: To Virtualize, or Not To Virtualize … That Is The Question” which will be at 12 noon EDT. Click here for more information and to register. It’s free! I’ll be taping a session with my friends over at RunAs Radio (click here for the one I did previously) on April 16th. It’s always a good… Read More

Writing If you’ve ever wondered how someone can work their normal job along with things like writing a book, it’s not easy. For example, one of the chapters I recently finished for my new SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering book pre-editing in Word weighs in at 117 pages. That’s more than most people write at all, let alone one chapter! Granted there are a fair amount of screen shots, but… Read More